SMART Compass

SMART Compass allows users who install it to choose and vote the reliability of any article they are reading on the web.

SMART Compass: Navigate Authentic News with Confidence

SMART Compass is a Google Chrome extension that relies on the Catchy Compass platform to enhance web literacy and combat the spread of misinformation. By enabling users to identify, rate, and vote on the reliability of various web articles, this tool contributes to a more informed web browsing experience. Equipped with Machine Learning mechanisms, the platform also serves the journalistic function of monitoring news source reliability. SMART Compass, backed by Google DNI Fund and the Seal of the European Union, empowers users to contribute to the fact-checking process hence shaping a healthier online media landscape.

Extension stats

By: Catchy
Users: 320
-9
Rating: 5.00
(1)
Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2019-09-03)
Creation date: 2019-09-03
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • identity
  • tabs
  • http://fonts.googleapis.com/
  • https://fonts.googleapis.com/
  • https://compass.catchy.ai/*
Size: 42.25K

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Extension summary

SMART Compass is an extension of Google Chrome that communicates and is based on the Catchy Compass Platform (https://compass.catchy.ai/). Compass is a platform that guides publishers and the public from contaminated news sources to legitimate websites, a crucial task during emergencies or last-minute news. Compass shows in a simple graphical interface the information available on the web with a clear indicator of reliability of the sources, helping journalists to identify the false viral news. Compass combines Machine Learning algorithms to verify the reliability of the sources and the journalistic activity that monitors, certifies and trains the machine. Compass platform is winner of Google DNI Fund and of the Seal of Excellence of the European Union. With the aim of enriching the contents of the Compass platform and allowing experts and journalists to focus on specific news so as to start the fact-checking process, Catchy has created a plugin for Compass. SMART Compass allows users who install it to choose any article they are reading on the web and that they do not consider reliable, to insert it as a source of news in the compass platform, to vote for it and to allow other experts to express their own preference in terms of reliability. SMART Compass is a project part of the EU Tender "Smart 2017/0090 mechanisms that shape social media and their impact on society".

Extension safety

Risk impact

SMART Compass requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

SMART Compass has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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